ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to extract salient lessons from the preceding case studies and then suggests comparative insights for at least the medium term, that is, into the first decade of the twenty-first century. It seeks to advance the somewhat underdeveloped field of comparative foreign policy on the continent and elsewhere, especially in the South, in part by incorporating promising perspectives from parallel fields, such as comparative, development, environmental, feminist, political economy, regional, and security studies. The chapter concludes by indicating some possible future directions for both policy and analysis into the next millennium. It is thus both retrospective and prospective but also self-critical, given deficiencies in a number of previous inquiries. The chapter makes an initial attempt to treat/integrate the burgeoning policies and practices of the wide-ranging peacekeeping nexus in the interrelated contexts of this collection and field.
